ASDP Basket Fund - Ministry Of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives

4 Planning and budgeting4.1 IntroductionThe ASDP comprises two main components, 1 – Local Level support comprisinglocal agricultural investments, local agriculture services and local agricultural capacitybuilding and reform. Component 2 - National Level support with emphasis on:agricultural services; agricultural market development; irrigation development;capacity building; programme coordination; and crosscutting issues, such as ruralfinancing, with other sectors at the national level.The division of responsibility for implementation of programme components betweencentral and local government is guided by Government of Tanzania’s decentralizationpolicy. Specifically, component 1 is executed at a LGA level and receives 75% ofASDP resources. Component 2 is implemented at the national level and has theremainder of ASDP resources.This section describes the planning and budgeting procedures to be followed by theASLMs and LGAs in implementing the ASDP. It also provides the linkage betweenthe ASDP planning and budgeting, and the Government Public Expenditure Review(PER) process and the MTEF. The procedures in this section should be used inconjunction with budget guidelines, circulars and instructions issued by theCommissioner for Budget in the MoF every year and the LGA planning guidelines.The ASDP planning and budgeting format uses the existing government systems.In order to produce accurate, timely and relevant information there are pre-designedforms issued by the MoF annually. The types of reporting formats are presented inAnnex C of this document.This section is divided into two sub-sections, the planning and budget processes.Further each process is sub-divided at the implementation level, i.e. the national andLGA levels.The main actors in the planning and budgeting processes for ASDP include:• Agricultural Sector Working Group• Directors of Policy and Planning (DPPs) in ASLMs• ASDP Secretariat• ASDP National Steering Committees• LGCDG Steering Committee.Government of the United Republic of Tanzania24